Starter motor AC DELCO or OEM Volkswagen

Went with the ACDelco, and it starts great! No grinding or clunking, so it didn't need to be shimmed. Thank you all for the assistance!

Starters don\u2019t generally \u201cslow down\u201d with age, really. You\u2019ll just find that one day it quits working. I had a failed starter on a 2002 Jetta, probably at around 290-300k miles

My Passat has 370k km and is 20 years old, still on the original starter, and starts like a champ.

Just gonna put my 2 cents in, the slow crank is either the starter or the battery. At that age, if the battery tests good it is the starter.

Took me 20 minutes to install. High quality. Zero problems.

About a day ago my starter completely went out on me... and just today I got finished putting an ABA starter into play. Absolutely love how much better it sounds and it has no problems getting things turning.

I replaced my old iron starter in my 84 GTI with the mk4 starter and what a difference (both spinning and weight!

My problem (from 2+ years ago) turned oiut to be a bad starter. The solenoid must have gone south. A new starter motor fixed it.

At this point I figured the starter was just busted. I had one overnighted and installed it the next day to no avail.

I pulled the starter, but the auto parts store was not able to test it. I bought a new one, installed it and still nothing.